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This alternative would have many key advantages over alternative <br />proposals. It would: <br />1. be consistent with our desire to maintain our low public service, semi- <br />rural lifestyle, <br />2. reduce traffic impacts far below what alternative proposals would <br />impose, <br />3. provide far more in taxes than the cost of required services from the <br />City, <br />4. eliminate any need for Met Council sewer extension from Oakdale, <br />which would be strongly opposed by area voters when the costs and <br />future implications were made known. <br />5. provide considerably improved environmental enhancement over <br />current or alternatively proposed land uses. <br />6. greatly reduce the spread of noise to existing city residents from train <br />and highway traffic. <br />7. put new commercial development in the Old Village, which was <br />planned to become a viable center with a completely planned <br />downtown, instead of putting commercial business that typically <br />provides NO BENEFITS to the residents. (If it did, the local taxes on <br />my house, with no city water or sewer and a fine, rural road, would not <br />have gone up almost 40% last year.) <br />8. Allow a few residents to build a house that reflects their interests <br />rather than the monolithic, solely financial, interests of national tract <br />housing builders. <br />The development proposal below was superimposed on existing maps from <br />the County, and shows the addition of 110 houses on 172.6 acres, including <br />City and County rights of way and wetlands, but excluding the intermittent <br />stream and permanent wetlands adjacent to CSAH 6 that were retained <br />by 3M according to current County maps. 110 houses is about 20 more <br />than would have been permitted in our existing nationally recognized Open <br />Space developments, one of which was awarded First Place for National <br />Developments with Under 100 Houses by the National Builders <br />Association. The extra houses were drawn to show an extreme level of <br />development that would preferably be reduced to be comparable to <br />Wildflower Shores and all other OP developments and account for wetlands <br />created locally and from additional water coming from the 1,100 adjacent <br />housing units under construction in Oakdale and additional associated <br />runoff from a major expansion of CSAH 13B.